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Auction 151, Lot 393

"Amerique du Sud", Andriveau-Goujon, E.

Subject: South America

Period: 1876 (dated)

Publication: Atlas Universel

Color: Hand Color

Size:
18.4 x 24.5 inches
46.7 x 62.2 cm
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This handsome map of South America features towns and cities, rivers, lakes, political divisions, names of native tribes, and more. Modern day Colombia is called Nouvelle Grenade, and Argentina is not named and appears as La Plata and Patagonie. Small insets in the bottom corners show the Galapagos Islands and an incomplete section of Antarctica. Printed by Louis Antoine and engraved by Smith, Gerin, Rousset, and Fontaine.

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Condition: A

Original color with short centerfold separations and toning in the blank margins.

Estimate: $100 - $140

Unsold

Closed on 11/19/2014

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